Red Meat Republic (eBook)

A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

Joshua Specht (Autor)

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2019
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18578-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Joshua Specht teaches American history at Monash University in Australia. He divides his time between Melbourne and South Bend, Indiana. Twitter @joshspecht

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How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs.Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of his story-the big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nation's westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New York. He shows how the enduring success of the cattle-beef complex-centralized, low cost, and meatpacker dominated-was a consequence of the meatpackers' ability to make their interests overlap with those of a hungry public, while the interests of struggling ranchers, desperate workers, and bankrupt butchers took a backseat. America-and the American table-would never be the same again.A compelling and unfailingly enjoyable read, Red Meat Republic reveals the complex history of exploitation and innovation behind the food we consume today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus. 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • American cattle • americans • BeEF • Beef cattle • Beef Products • Big Business • Bison hunting • bureaucrat • Bureau of Animal Industry • Bureau of Indian Affairs • Business Ethics • Capitalism • cattle • Cheap meat • Chicago Board of Trade • Chicago History Museum • Comanche • Commodity • Competition • Corned beef • Criticism • Customer • Deadwood Dick • Democratization • Division of Labour • Drought • Economic Development • Economic Power • ecosystem • Employment • Environmental Degradation • Expropriation • Farmer • Federal Meat Inspection Act • feedlot • Fraud • Grand Trunk Railway • grazing • grocery store • Harvard Business School • Indian Territory • Individualism • industrial production • Jayhawker • Joseph McCoy • Kansas Historical Society • Knights of Labor • laborer • labor unrest • Library and Archives Canada • livestock • Market (economics) • Marketing • Mass production • Matador Ranch • McCoy's (crisp) • meat • meat industry • Mining • Murdo Mackenzie • Nat Love • Newberry Library • North America • Open Range • Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum • Philip Danforth Armour • plains indians • Politics • Predatory Pricing • Progressive Era • Pure Food and Drug Act • Ranch • red meat • Red River War • refrigeration • Refrigerator car • Regime • Sanitation • social conflict • Specht • Stampede • Standardization • Supervisor • Supply Chain • Supply (economics) • Supporter • Technological Change • Technology • Texas Longhorn • texas panhandle • Texas Tech University • Theft • unfree labour • University of Oklahoma Press • Upton Sinclair • Vegetarianism • Writing • XIT Ranch • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18578-6 / 0691185786
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18578-1 / 9780691185781